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I only watched the first part, but you can't see it and not see Lawrence of Arabia and the white saviourism of it. (I realise that everyone's said this, but really it hit me hard).
That’s kinda the point though, the Bene Gesserit seeded a messiah narrative a thousand years before Paul got there. Haven’t read all of dune, but hearing people talk about it, it seems like Herbert is deconstructing the whole ‘chosen one’ narrative. It’s supposed to be fucked up.
Exactly, and there's a strong chance he only planned on doing the first two books but people didn't get this point so he makes it much more overt in the third and fourth books
Yeah, the whole project is about "Maybe superheroes are kinda bad." < timestamped link to NBC interview with Frank Herbert
E) So happy my 5k comment was DUNEposting
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I haven't seen the new movie, but I feel like the book deliberately invoked this in the sense of "this is pretty fucked up, right?" Does the movie do it in that sense or like a "wow, what a hero!" way?
the first movie taken on its own could be seen that way but its setting up a second movie which leans more towards the former sense
That's totally fair and I think tracks pretty well with the book.
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It's foreshadowed, but it's not until he get's his Mentat powers in the desert that it becomes clear how Paul's basically manipulating the Fremen knowing that it'll destroy him and them.the second part deals with that more explicitly from what I've been told (haven't seen it yet) even though the book didn't deal with it too much until the sequel
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It comes back to bite paul and he "lives long enough to become the villain" so to speak: https://www.inverse.com/entertainment/dune-2-denis-villeneuve-interview-white-savior